Nokia buys Plaze

24 June 2008

It's not a secret that Denmark is far behind developments in the mobile market. We are calling and texting. And that's it. Ok, a handful of photo taking and a slightly smaller proportion use it as a media player. But the Internet, instant messaging and mobile applications is virtually unknown to all but a few professionally interested persons on Computer World, communication forum or similar.
I'm not even cutting-edge. And while I and the major Internet players waiting for the situation when the real breakthrough for using mobile phones for anything other than traditional call so takes mobile companies themselves affair.
A few weeks ago it was announced that Vodafone had bought ZYB. http://zyb.com/
Yesterday, Nokia announced the purchase of so Plaze http://www.plazes.com/ . Plaze locates you and your friends on a map using your computer or by sending a (free) SMS to Plaze. The idea is really good, but I never really started to use the service a little over a year ago when I had created a profile http://plazes.com/users/38993 .
Nokia has previously bought Twango (file sharing), Loudeye (music), and Enpocket (mobile Adserving) and is slowly but surely started to rearm for the next trends. With Plaze has added dimensions of time and place for your mobile and your relationships. Interesting!

I got the news from PaidContent.org

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